Scholarship program allows low-income families to consider private school for children

Low-income families apply for vouchers

1:41 AM,
Aug. 11, 2013

Written by

Michelle George
The Eagle-Gazette Staff

More families in Fairfield County will have the opportunity to send their children to private school through a new state income-based scholarship program that takes affect this fall.

Administrators at Fairfield Christian Academy and St. Bernadette School, both in Lancaster, recently learned their schools were accepted into the EdChoice Income-based Scholarship Program, which was available to only kindergarteners this year.

The scholarship is worth $4,250 and will follow students through high school, although they will have to reapply every year. There were 2,000 scholarships ...